About Me

Hi! I’m Megan, a current graduate student at the University of Cincinnati. I am pursuing my Master of Science in Business Analytics. I found my love for math in high school, and soon decided that I wanted to do it for the rest of my life. My overall goal is to become an actuary, where I can help people and companies predict the risk of certain decisions and helping them plan to hopefully prevent and mitigate that risk.

Outside of work and school, I enjoy spending time with my family (being the oldest of 5), working with my hands (whether that be cooking or working on various projects), and traveling (I have never been one to turn down an adventure).

Academic background

Education
  • University of Cincinnati, Carl H. Lindner College of Business Cincinnati, OH
    • Master of Science Business Analytics, Expected August 2021
  • Florida State University Tallahassee, FL
    • Bachelor of Science, Actuarial Science with University Honors, December 2019
    • Minors: Business and Spanish
    • Certificate: Leadership Studies
Licenses
  • Actuarial Exams
    • Passed:
      • P May 2019
      • FM August 2018
    • Sitting:
      • IFM November 2020

Professional background

Throughout my time during at Florida State University, I had the honor of holding multiple positions within my sorority and in the work force.

From Fall of 2017 through graduation, I had the opportunity to be one of the Vice Presidents in my sorority, specifically VP of New Member Experience and VP of Event Planning. During this time, I was able to grow not only as a leader, but learn skills that many learn late into their careers. These include team management, communication, implementation of new ideas and programs, and people skills.

I spent a summer as an Actuarial Intern at Mercer, where I consulted with clients to develop strategy’s of their health benefits structures that fit their goals and budget, and monitored their costs and risks through the summer.

Most recently, I have become a Graduate Assistant at the University of Cincinnati and have been working at a medical office in town developing a system to monitor patient visits, and company finances to determine most profitable and time efficient procedures and predict future growth for the company.

Experience with R

My experience with R is just at the beginning of its journey. I started working with the system during my time quarantining over the summer of 2020. I have been practicing consistently with it, but I am still getting comfortable with the set up and remembering all of the different formulas, and options that they system has to offer.

Experience with other analytic software

My experience with other analytic software is vastly limited, which means (at least in my mind) that I have a limited experience in many different software.

For a period of time during undergrad, I was working towards a minor in Computer Programming, where I took classes in C++, Unix, and Linux. However, it felt as though at the end of every semester I would lose all of my work and my ability to practice without the class provided software.

During my internship at Mercer, I was thrown very quickly into the world of Excel. I was doing more complex formatting, and function composition than I had ever done before. As I became more proficient with Excel, I was also becoming much quicker through learning quick shorthand methods to get where I wanted within extremely large data sets. Since then, I have continued to work on my proficiency, and as well as beginning to learn about Excel VBA.

During the last semester of undergrad, I was introduced to SAS through one of my classes. However, during that class we skipped the basics of the analytic software and went straight into the more complex problems. Since then, my SAS has been limited but has been continuing to improve with the Business Analytics program here at the University of Cincinnati.

The rest of my analytic software experience, consists of Python and SQL, where I have just begun to dip my toe into their abilities. But I am looking forward to fully jumping in soon.